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The Only Daughter (Paperback): A.B. Yehoshua The Only Daughter (Paperback)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R381 R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Save R72 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Rachele Luzzato is 12 years old when she learns her father is seriously ill. While her family are looking forward to her Bat-Mitzvah, Rachele's teachers happen to cast her as the Madonna in the school's Christmas play. Pulled in opposing directions, Rachele feels the threads of her life begin to untangle. With the fear of losing her father, various forces compete to guide and take care of Rachele: from her charismatic Jewish grandfather, to her Catholic grandparents on her mother's side; and even an old teacher who believes the young girl might take solace from a nineteenth-century novel. These disparate influences ultimately blend in Rachele's imagination to create a fantasy that transcends the religious and cultural conflicts of her everyday life with one simple hope: to end the loneliness felt by an only daughter. With great subtlety and tenderness, A.B. Yehoshua paints a portrait of a young girl at the beginning of her journey into adulthood.

A Late Divorce (Paperback, New ed): A.B. Yehoshua A Late Divorce (Paperback, New ed)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R281 R232 Discovery Miles 2 320 Save R49 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Yehuda Kaminka, a retired teacher, returns to Israel from the U.S. to divorce his estranged wife who is in a mental asylum, having tried to kill him a few years earlier. The impending divorce of their parents throws into turmoil the lives of the couple's three children and grandson, revealing the complexity of their relationships. Yehuda's nine days, leading up to Passover, are remembered by different members of the family: A.B. Yehoshua's brilliance reveals itself in these different voices, each a minor masterpiece. A picture slowly emerges of what happened as memories are revived, hopes expressed and dreams articulated. The narrative gathers pace as Yehuda's visit draws to an end and he changes his mind about the divorce agreement.

The Tunnel (Paperback): A.B. Yehoshua The Tunnel (Paperback)
A.B. Yehoshua; Translated by Stuart Schoffman
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R421 R352 Discovery Miles 3 520 Save R69 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Zvi Luria has begun to lose his memory. At the beginning he only makes small mistakes, forgetting first names and taking home the wrong child from his grandson's kindergarten, but he knows that things will only get worse. He's 73 and a retired road engineer. His neurologist hints at the path his illness might take and suggests ways of comabtting it, with the help of his wife Dina. Dina, a respected paediatrician, is keen for him to return to meaningful activity, and suggests he volunteers to work with his old colleagues at the Israel Roads Authority. This is how Luria finds himself at the Ramon Crater in the Negev desert planning a secret road for the army with the son of his former colleague. But there's a mystery about a certain hill on the route of this road. Who are the people living there and why are they trapped? And should the hill be flattened and the family evicted, or should a tunnel beneath it be built? With humour and great tenderness, A.B. Yehoshua depicts the love between Luria and his wife as they confront the challenges of his illness. Just when Luria's sense of identity becomes more compromised, then does he find himself, enabling a rich meditation on the entwined identities of Israeli Jews and Palestinians and on the nature of memory itself. Yehoshua weaves a masterful story about a long and loving marriage, interlaced with biting social commentary and caustic humour.

The Retrospective - Translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman (Paperback): A.B. Yehoshua The Retrospective - Translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman (Paperback)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An ageing film director named Yair Moses has been invited to the Spanish pilgrim city of Santiago de Campostela for a retrospective of his early work. As he and Ruth, his leading actress and longtime muse, settle into their hotel, Moses notices the painting over his bed depicting a classical legend of an old prisoner nursing at the breast of a young woman. For the first time in decades, he recalls the infamous scene from one of his early films which led to his estrangement from his difficult but brilliant screenwriter, Trigano, who was also Ruth's former lover. Throughout the retrospective, Moses is unsettled, straddling the past and the present, and upon his return to Israel, he decides to find the elusive Trigano and propose a new collaboration. But the screenwriter demands a price for such a reconciliation, one that will have strange and lasting consequences. Searching, intellectual, and original, The Retrospective is a probing meditation on mortality, the limits of memory, and the struggle of artistic creation by one of the world's most esteemed writers.

Friendly Fire (Paperback): A.B. Yehoshua Friendly Fire (Paperback)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A husband and wife spend a week apart over the Hanukkah holiday: Daniela visits her widowed brother-in-law in Africa to revive memories of her sister with him but, in ways she cannot begin to understand, he has been left wounded and raging after an earlier tragedy - a death by friendly fire. Her husband, Amotz Ya'ari, stays behind in Israel, rushing between his engineering company, their grandchildren and his father. Life in the Ya'ari family is full, complicated and humorous, but beyond it lies a fragile society deeply uneasy with itself and badly scarred, with each family harbouring its own ghosts. Ever-creative, A.B. Yehoshua's short, interwoven chapters create a duet-like narrative which penetrates deeply into human relationships and taps into the psyche of his country.

Five Seasons (Paperback): A.B. Yehoshua Five Seasons (Paperback)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R278 R230 Discovery Miles 2 300 Save R48 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the autumn, Molkho's wife dies. His years of loving care have ended and his newfound freedom proves unlike the one he had imagined. It is uneasy, filled with the erotic fantasies of a man who must fall in love, but whose longing for meaningful relationships is held hostage by the spirit of his wife. Winter sees him in Berlin in a comic encounter with a legal adviser from his office in Haifa. Spring takes him to the Galilee and an impossible infatuation. Jerusalem in the summer brings another man's wife and an extraordinary request. And the following autumn there is Nina whose yearning for her Russian home brings Molkho back to life. 'In this finely observed and oddly moving comic novel?Yehoshua makes us feel [Molkho's] humanity - and deftly wins him our sympathy.' Kirkus

Mr Mani (Paperback, New ed): A.B. Yehoshua Mr Mani (Paperback, New ed)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R311 R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Save R54 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Six generations of the Sephardi Mani family are chronicled in this profound and passionate Mediterranean epic, which moves backwards from the 1980s to the mid-nineteenth century. The story comprises of five conversations, each centering on the fate of a different member of the Mani family, and in each the responses of one person are absent. Mr. Mani is surprisingly humorous, full of extraordinary historical perspectives, and deeply wise and compassionate. It is an imaginative tour-de-force.

The Liberated Bride (Paperback): A.B. Yehoshua The Liberated Bride (Paperback)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Professor Yohanan Rivlin has two obsessions, the first and most ambitious, is to understand the Arab mind - no mean feat in itself though perhaps made easier by the fact that he lives and works with Israeli Arabs. The second - and more personal, though equally hard to grasp - is to understand the failure of his elder son's marriage. Rivlin's two quests lead him to extraordinary - and at times highly entertaining - encounters with very disparate people, where the personal becomes intertwined with the political, as he searches out the truth both in politics and life.

The Extra (Paperback): A.B. Yehoshua The Extra (Paperback)
A.B. Yehoshua; Translated by Stuart Schoffman
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R390 R320 Discovery Miles 3 200 Save R70 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An experiment is under way in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: a woman, recently widowed, is starting a trial period in assisted living, mainly to placate her over-anxious son, whilst in Jerusalem her daughter Noga, a young harpist, returns from her job with a Dutch orchestra to look after the family apartment. To enliven her stay, Noga's brother finds work for her - playing roles as an extra in film, TV, and in the opera Carmen. The random roles Noga is thrust into resonate strangely with her own life which she begins to re-evaluate. Central to her past is the fact that she refused to have children, resulting in the break-up of her marriage. No-one in her family understood her motives for not wanting children and everyone has a different explanation for it. Now, a chance encounter with her former husband reveals his continuing powerful, love as well as a shocking deed she committed during their marriage. But Noga is a free spirit neither tied to the past nor defined by it, and always keen to push boundaries. She lives for her music and is willing to go wherever it takes her. The three-month experiment proves as much of a test for her as for her mother and both are radically transformed by the end. A.B. Yehoshua is as creative, humorous and provocative as ever in The Extra, exploring themes familiar to him of love, family relationships and artistic ambitions, set mainly in an ever-changing Jerusalem.

A Journey to The End of The Millennium (Hardcover): A.B. Yehoshua A Journey to The End of The Millennium (Hardcover)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R382 R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Save R64 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Sailing from the North African port of Tangier to a small, distant town called Paris are a Jewish merchant, Ben Attar, his two beloved wives and his Arab partner, Abu Lutfi. They have come for a meeting with their third partner the widower, Raphael Abulafia who has been forced to turn his back on their previous trading partnership because of his new wife's distrust of the dual marriage of Ben Attar. The latter turns this annual trading voyage into a personal quest to legitimise his second wife, restore his honour, and, equally important, to show others the richness and humanity in his way of life. A.B. Yehoshua has imaginatively recreated a medieval world (from North Africa to Paris, from Spain to Germany) with its merchant trade in great depth and sensuous detail. His evocation of one man's love is lyrical, erotic even.

A Woman in Jerusalem (Paperback): A.B. Yehoshua A Woman in Jerusalem (Paperback)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R270 R222 Discovery Miles 2 220 Save R48 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A suicide bomb explodes in a Jerusalem market. One of the victims is a migrant worker without any papers, only a salary slip from the bakery where she worked as a night cleaner. As her body lies unclaimed in the morgue, her employers are labelled unfeeling and inhuman by a local journalist. The manager of human resources is given the task of discovering who she was and why she had come to Jerusalem. As the image of this once-beautiful dead woman begins to obsess him, the manager turns this duty into a personal mission - he is no longer just saving his company's reputation by trying to discover her identity and assure her of a dignified funeral. He is now restoring her not only to her family and country but also to common humanity - whilst at the same time conquering the hardness of his own heart. "There are human riches here. The manager moves from a man who has given up on love to one who opens himself to it. And there are strange and powerful scenes - of the morgue, of the coffin, of the Soviet base where the manager passes through the purging of body and soul." Carole Angier, The Independent

The Continuing Silence Of A Poet (Paperback, New Ed): A.B. Yehoshua The Continuing Silence Of A Poet (Paperback, New Ed)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This paperback edition brings together novellas and short stories of the celebrated Jewish writer A.B. Yehoshua, including two stories previously unpublished in English. Mr Mani, which appeared in the previous hardback edition, is now a novel in its own right.

The Lover (Paperback, New ed): A.B. Yehoshua The Lover (Paperback, New ed)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R342 R282 Discovery Miles 2 820 Save R60 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A husband seeks his wife's lover who is lost in the turbulence of Israel's Yom Kippur War. As the story of his quest unfolds and grows in intensity, the main protagonists are drawn into the search and are transformed by it: through the different perspectives of husband, wife, teenage daughter, and young Arab emerges a complex picture of the uneasy present, the tension between generations, between Israel's past and future, between Jews and Arabs.;'We see an Arab and an Israeli locked into a debate of proximity, alikeness, mental hatred, that Yehoshua's superb ability to render both presences relieves of all sentimentality. What I value most in The Lover is a gift for equidistance - between characters, even between the feelings on both sides.' Alfred Kazin, New York Review of Books

Five Seasons (Paperback, 1st Harvest ed): A.B. Yehoshua Five Seasons (Paperback, 1st Harvest ed)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R530 R478 Discovery Miles 4 780 Save R52 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the autumn, Molkho's wife dies and his years of loving attention are ended. But his newfound freedom is filled with the erotic fantasies of a man who must fall in love. Winter sees him away to the operas of Berlin and a comic tryst with a legal advisor who has a sprained ankle. Spring takes him to Galilee and an underage Indian girl. Jerusalem in the summer presents him with an offer from an old classmate to seduce his infertile wife. And the next autumn it is Nina (if only they spoke the same language ), whose yearning for her Russian home leads Molkho back to life.
Five Seasons is a finely nuanced, unabashedly realistic novel that provides immense reading pleasure.

The Tunnel (Paperback): A.B. Yehoshua The Tunnel (Paperback)
A.B. Yehoshua; Translated by Stuart Schoffman
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R471 R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Save R53 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Retrospective (Paperback): A.B. Yehoshua Retrospective (Paperback)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R493 R436 Discovery Miles 4 360 Save R57 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice
Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre etranger
"The greatest Hebrew novelist." -- "Jewish Review of Books"
An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. When Yair Moses arrives, a painting over his bed triggers a distant memory from one of his early films: a scene that caused a rift with his brilliant but difficult screenwriter. Upon his return to Israel, Moses decides to travel to the south to look for his elusive former partner and propose a new collaboration. But the screenwriter demands a price for it that will have strange and lasting consequences.
A searching and original novel by one of the world's most esteemed writers, "The Retrospective" is a meditation on mortality and intimacy, on the limits of memory and the struggle of artistic creation.
" "The Retrospective"] moved me deeply." -- Vivian Gornick, "The Nation "
" Yehoshua] achieves an autumnal tone as he ruminates on memory's slippery hold on life and on art." --" The New Yorker"

Friendly Fire - A Duet (Paperback): A.B. Yehoshua Friendly Fire - A Duet (Paperback)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R553 R493 Discovery Miles 4 930 Save R60 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Ya'ari, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniela, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister. There she confronts her anguished brother-in-law, Yirmiyahu, whose soldier son was killed six years earlier in the West Bank by "friendly fire." Yirmiyahu is now managing a team of African researchers digging for the bones of man's primate ancestors as he desperately strives to detach himself from every shred of his identity, Jewish and Israeli.
With great artistry, A. B. Yehoshua has once again written a rich, compassionate, rewarding novel in which sharply rendered details of modern Israeli life and age-old mysteries of human existence echo one another in complex and surprising ways.

Woman in Jerusalem (Paperback): A.B. Yehoshua Woman in Jerusalem (Paperback)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R377 R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Save R41 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily accuses the bakery of "gross negligence and inhumanity toward an employee," the bakery's owner, overwhelmed by guilt, entrusts the task of identifying and burying the victim to a human resources man. This man is at first reluctant to take on the job, but as the facts of the woman's life take shape--she was an engineer from the former Soviet Union, a non-Jew on a religious pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and, judging by an early photograph, beautiful--he yields to feelings of regret, atonement, and even love. At once profoundly serious and highly entertaining, A. B. Yehoshua astonishes us with his masterly, often unexpected turns in the story and with his ability to get under the skin and into the soul of Israel today.

Facing the Fires - Conversations with A.B. Yehoshua (Hardcover): Bernard Horn Facing the Fires - Conversations with A.B. Yehoshua (Hardcover)
Bernard Horn; Preface by A.B. Yehoshua
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Yehoshua is one of Israel's most prominent novelists and a controversial theorist on politics, culture, history and Jewish identity. These interviews introduce him to an English-speaking audience and reveal the interplay of literary, psychological, mythological and political motifs in his work.

Mr. Mani (Hardcover): A.B. Yehoshua Mr. Mani (Hardcover)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R889 R781 Discovery Miles 7 810 Save R108 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Extra (Paperback): A.B. Yehoshua The Extra (Paperback)
A.B. Yehoshua
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R368 R326 Discovery Miles 3 260 Save R42 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Lover Lib/E (Standard format, CD, Library Edition): A.B. Yehoshua The Lover Lib/E (Standard format, CD, Library Edition)
A.B. Yehoshua; Translated by Philip Simpson; Read by Betsy Foldes Meiman, Jim Meskimen, Jodi Carlisle, …
R1,320 R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Save R380 (29%) Out of stock
A Journey to the End of the Millennium (MP3 format, CD): A.B. Yehoshua A Journey to the End of the Millennium (MP3 format, CD)
A.B. Yehoshua; Read by Paul Boehmer; Translated by Nicholas De Lange
R907 R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Save R233 (26%) Out of stock
The Lover (MP3 format, CD): A.B. Yehoshua The Lover (MP3 format, CD)
A.B. Yehoshua; Translated by Philip Simpson; Read by Betsy Foldes Meiman, Jim Meskimen, Jodi Carlisle, …
R883 R649 Discovery Miles 6 490 Save R234 (27%) Out of stock
A Journey to the End of the Millennium Lib/E (Standard format, CD, Library Edition): A.B. Yehoshua A Journey to the End of the Millennium Lib/E (Standard format, CD, Library Edition)
A.B. Yehoshua; Read by Paul Boehmer; Translated by Nicholas De Lange
R1,320 R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Save R380 (29%) Out of stock
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